The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law exists primarily to produce law and masters degree students well-educated about the extraordinary complex set of laws that govern patients, health care providers, manufacturers, and suppliers. The Center's faculty of seven full-time professors together with highly qualified practitioner adjuncts from the public and private sectors offer students a broad array of coursework constantly evolving to reflect changes in US law and the healthcare system. The Center works closely with the Office of Career Services to offer externship and summer opportunities in law firms, regulatory and enforcement agencies, nonprofits, and life science companies' ethics and compliance offices. An optional for-credit semester in DC allows students experience in federal agency work and the Medical Legal PArtnership in Seton Hall Law's Center for Social Justice enables students in their last year opportunities to represeent live clients in a variety of healthcare matters.
Research and policy work are core to the Center's mission, offering students numerous opportunities to work with faculty in this space. Center faculty produce scholarship, white papers, and policy recommendations on the varied and complex issues posed by health, life sciences and food regulation, health care access, human subject research, disability and mental health issues, privacy and non-profit governance. Faculty members bring to the Center's work nationally-recognized expertise in public health, bioethics, health care fraud and compliance, health care finance, intellectual property law, among other areas. The Center fosters informed dialogue among policymakers, consumer advocates, the medical profession, and industry in the search for solutions to the ethical, legal, and social questions presented in the health and life science arenas.
The Center operates under the leadership of Faculty Director and Professor of Law, Jacob T. Elberg. To contact the Center, please call 973-642-8863 or email [email protected].
